Read More

She was expected to speak this week to EU leaders including German chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and European Council president Donald Tusk in an attempt to break the logjam, the Financial Times reported.

Yet a European commission spokeswoman told the Guardian today that no further meetings are foreseen between UK and EU negotiators because "negotiations have concluded."

The Telegraph reports every Tory MP will be invited to No10 for a drinks party next week in a last-ditch charm offensive.

David Davis said: "One wonders if even the January vote will go ahead" (Image: Getty Images)

And Mrs May is determined to win over the DUP in the hope others will follow suit.

But a Brexiteer source told the newspaper: "No one is changing their minds about this deal because the deal itself remains the same."

MPs from both Leave and Remain are against the 585-page withdrawal deal - which ensures basic terms, a £39bn divorce bill and a transition period to December 2020 - because of a 'backstop' clause that could trap the UK under EU customs rules indefinitely.

That would mean Britain was unable to strike its own trade deals with countries like the US.

And Environment Secretary Michael Gove today warned a No Deal Brexit will cause "considerable turbulence" in the farming sector.

Mr Davis, in a column for the Telegraph, insisted a deal will be reached "at the eleventh hour" because the EU is worried about losing the £39 billion "divorce payment" that would come with a Brexit deal.

MPs are finally supposed to vote on the deal in the week of January 14 (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

The vote, which was delayed at the last minute in December, is currently scheduled for the week beginning January 14.

Mr Davis said: "The Withdrawal Agreement does not respect the referendum result. That is why the meaningful vote had to be delayed and one wonders if even the January vote will go ahead.

Read More

The deal ensures basic terms, a £39bn divorce bill and a transition period to December 2020 (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

"Attempts to frighten MPs into supporting it are unlikely to work, because voting down this substandard deal will not result in no Brexit."

Urging Mrs May to take her time to get a better deal, he adds: "We know that the EU is worried about the loss of the £39 billion 'divorce' payment if there is no deal... so this is the moment to be hard-nosed about these issues.

"The more we prepare to leave the EU without a deal, the more likely a good deal becomes."

Jeremy Corbyn wants the vote to go ahead, and for the deal to be defeated, so he can try and force a full no confidence vote in the government for the first time.

But yesterday he rebuffed calls for an immediate second referendum on Brexit, after a poll claimed 72% of Labour members want the party to fully back one.

Instead he said Mrs May should go back to Brussels after a defeat and renegotiate.